Improvement in the manufacture of boots and shoes



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JOSEPH L. JOYCE, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 141,357, dated July 29,1873; application filed June 18, 1873.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, J osEPH L. JOYCE, of NewHaven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, haveinvented a new Improvement in Boots and Shoes; and Ido hereby declarethe following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawingsandthe letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute partof this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a longitudinal section of the toe end of a shoe; Fig. 2, theheel; Fig. 3, a longitudinal section at the heel; Fig. 4, a transversesection of a shoe, illustrating the usual construction and myimprovement.

This invention relates to an improvement in the manufacture of boots andshoes, the object being to protect the upper leather in the vicinityofthe sole. In the usual construction of boots and shoes the upperleather, as it is turned up over the edge oftheinsole, is exposed uponthe inside to the angle of the upper side ofthe insole and at the toe ofthe shoe, particularly in childreus wear. This soon cuts through theleather, or, rather, forms a bearing against which the wear upon theoutside soon takes away the upper. While this is more apparent at thetoe, this peculiar wear occurs around the ball of the shoe. The objectof this invention is to overcome this difficulty; and it consists inbeveling the edge of the insole from the lower side back toward the top,so that the upper will not bear against the upper angle ot' the insole;also, in combining with this construction of insole a recessed outsole,the edge `which forms the recess extending up onto theupper leatherabove the lower edge of the insole.

Upon the right side of Fig. 4 I illustrate the usual construction. A isthe insole; B, the second sole; and C, the outsole. As there In myimproved construction I bevel the in- I sole back from the lower surfaceup, as denoted at a on the left of Fig. 4, so that the angle of theinsole, around which .the upper bears, will be down upon the outersole-that is to say, there is no exposed angle in the upper againstwhich the wear will come, asin the usual construction. This advantage ismore apparent at the toe, as seen in Fig. l. In this figure I alsorepresent the outsole E as formed with an edge, F, projecting up ontothe upper, around the toefaud above the insole, which leaves a slightspace for the upper to play between this edge and the upper angle of theinsole. `This edge may be formed by cutting down the surface of thesole, or by attaching an independent strip thereto. By thisconstruction, the angle against which the wear of the shoe is made beingremoved, it follows that the wear of the shoe will be much less thanwhen the angle is present, as in the usual construction. l

I claim as my inventionl. In the manufacture of boots and shoes, theinsole beveled from the lower side back toward the top, and from theupper, or so as to form a space between the edge of the insole and theupper, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the insole beveled so as to form a space betweenvthe edge and upper, as described, the outsole formed with a recess orupwardly-projecting edge, substantially a-s and for the purposedescribed.

JOS. L. JOYCE.

Witnesses:

A. J. TIBBrTs, J. H. SHUMWAY.

